We need to talk about America

Read my article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald about the fault line in America today, a forerunner to a session I will be chairing at the Sydney Writer’s Festival at Sydney Town Hall on Saturday May 22 at 5.30 pm.  For further information and bookings go to www.swf.org.au

The President takes the picture

 

Barack Obama photographs the press

 

 

Yes he could. The US gets health insurance!

And the President was right on the ball, thanking his supporters within hours of the historic vote.  Like many millions of others, I received the following email from him:

Anne –

 

For the first time in our nation’s history, Congress has passed comprehensive health care reform. America waited a hundred years and fought for decades to reach [...]